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Environmental Sci
Question | Answer |
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What is the independent variable? | Variable you have control over. What changes the dependent variable? |
What is the dependant variable? | What you measure and what is affected. |
Gross Productivity | Overall Productivity. |
Net Productivity | Productivity when some is taken out. |
Species Richness | How many specific organisms? |
Species Evenness | How many of each species? |
Species Diversity | How many organisms in the area? |
Commensalism | When one organism benefits, the other is unaffected. |
Ecosystem Services | Things the ecosystem does that cannot be represented in monetary value |
Ecological | Different Habitats |
Range of Tolerance | Includes pop. size and Environmental gradient |
Our Biome | Temperate Forest |
Biome | Rainfall and Temperature |
Important for Nutrient Cycles | Phosphorus and Nitrogen |
What increases Nitrogen? | Decomposition, Litterfall |
What increases Phosphorus? | Decomposition, Litterfall, and Waste |
Control | Portion of experiment that experiences no change |